Dietary supplements

Explore our lecture on “Dietary supplements” with Professor Asker Jeukendrup. In this session, Asker examines the evidence and practical application of selected dietary supplements in sport, with a particular focus on creatine and beta-alanine. The lecture explores how these supplements work, when they may be useful, how dosing and timing should be considered, and why supplement plans should be personalised, evidence-based, and periodised rather than applied using a “kitchen sink” approach.

What we will cover:
   What is creatine, and how can it support high-intensity exercise?
   How should creatine be loaded, maintained, and applied?
   What is beta-alanine, and how does it influence buffering capacity?
   Which athletes benefit most from creatine or beta-alanine?
   How can practitioners develop personalised supplement plans?

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Professor Asker Jeukendrup

Professor Asker Jeukendrup is one of the world’s leading sports nutritionists and exercise physiologist who spent most of his career as a professor at the University of Birmingham (UK) as Head of The Human Performance Laboratory. Currently he is a (visiting) professor at Loughborough University. He has authored 9 books and over 250 research papers and book chapters. During his career Asker has worked at the forefront of research as well as directly with athletes, including Olympic and World champions, Tour de France cyclists and Champions league football teams.

After many years of working at Universities, Asker accepted a position as the Global Senior Director of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute. At present he is the director of his own performance consulting business “Mysportscience”, and worked or works with a number of football clubs (including FC Barcelona, Chelsea, Red Bull Leipzig, Red Bull Saltzburg and PSV Eindhoven). He is head of performance nutrition of the Red Bull Athlete Performance Center, and Performance Manager of Nutrition for the Dutch Olympic team.

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Dietary supplements

Professor Asker Jeukendrup

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